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Books like Stoneheart: 9 series to read next

Stoneheart is fantasy and urban fantasy, about coming of age, set in our world, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Stoneheart is 4 books, 2006–2016.

“The Stoneheart trilogy is a set of three children's novels by Charlie Fletcher, published between 2006 and 2008.”
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The Dark Is Rising
The Indian in the Cupboard
Alfred Kropp
Young Wizards
Tolkien's legendarium
His Dark Materials
Varjak Paw
Artemis Fowl
The Nsibidi Scripts

The Dark Is RisingSeries

seriesSusan Cooper5 books1965

Mythic fantasy.

“The first book in the series, Over Sea, Under Stone, was originally conceived as a stand-alone novel, and the sequence gets its name from the second novel in the series, The Dark Is Rising.”
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Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →

The Indian in the CupboardSeries

seriesLynne Reid Banks5 books1980

Portal fantasy.

“Lynne Reid Banks' Indian in the Cupboard series begins with the 1980 children's novel in which a boy discovers that an old cupboard can bring his plastic toy figures to life.”
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Start with The Indian in the Cupboard →

Alfred KroppSeries

seriesRick Yancey3 books2005

“Rick Yancey's Alfred Kropp trilogy follows the teenage title character through three young-adult fantasy-adventure novels.”
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Start with The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp →

Young WizardsSeries

seriesDiane Duane24 books1983

About wizards.

“Across fifteen books published between 1983 and 2019, the two age forward in something close to real time as their missions escalate from New York streets to alien worlds and beyond.”
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Start with So You Want to Be a Wizard →

Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

Set in secondary world.

“Before the seas were bent and the mountains raised, there was Music — and from that Music came Arda, and in the west of Middle-earth the long defeat and stubborn hope of those who dwell there.”
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His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

“In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends.”
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Reading order →

Varjak PawSeries

seriesS. F. Said2 books2003

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, about coming of age, set in contemporary and big city.

Start with Varjak Paw →

Artemis FowlSeries

seriesEoin Colfer15 books2001

About fae.

“As of 2013, the novels have sold more than 21 million copies in 44 languages, and are one of the best-selling series of all time.”
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Start with LEPrecon →

The Nsibidi ScriptsSeries

seriesNnedi Okorafor3 books2011

About identity, set in africa.

“The Nsibidi Scripts follows Sunny Nwazue, a Nigerian-American albino girl living in Nigeria, as she discovers latent magical ability and is inducted into a hidden society of Leopard People with its own laws, dangers, and hierarchy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Akata Witch →

Why these

No sales rank, no star ratings, no readers also bought.

Shared terms are not a promise that a book feels the same. Two series can be far-future political intrigue and read nothing alike — what the ranking can say is what they are about, and each card says which parts it shares.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Stoneheart?: The Dark Is Rising — the closest match to Stoneheart on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Stoneheart?: Stone Heart. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Stoneheart.
How big is Stoneheart?: Stoneheart is 4 books, 2006–2016.

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